‘Collaboration’ posts

Gilbane Boston: Content as Strategic Social Object

Posted by John Eckman on 15 Nov 2010

Gilbane Conference Boston Although the Gilbane group has a different three Cs that I’m normally talking about (Content, Collaboration, and Customers rather than Content, Community, and Commerce) I’m looking forward to this year’s Gilbane Boston. I’ll be part of a panel in the “Colleagues and Collaboration” track, about Social Publishing: C5. Social Publishing: Strategic Content [...]

Community and Content: Business Week's Business Exchange

Posted by John Eckman on 30 Jun 2009

Earlier this month, during the MediaBistro Circus, John A Byrne (@johnabyrne on twitter) spoke about how Business Week is transforming itself, engaging with users, and taking advantage of new opportunities to bring community into contact with content. One of the sites he mentioned was the Business Exchange, a new community (really a set of communities) | View post »

Evaluating Social Software? Don’t Underestimate Open Source

Posted by John Eckman on 31 Mar 2009

It’s quite difficult, as many of you probably know first hand, to keep track of all the various platforms, vendors, and open source projects in the social computing and enterprise collaboration space. Like content management systems, social software platforms seem to just keep multiplying rather than consolidating. Thankfully, the folks at CMS Watch, who’ve historically | View post »

DrupalCon DC 2009: 5 Key Trends

Posted by John Eckman on 20 Mar 2009

Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend DrupalCon DC 2009. (DrupalCon is the semi-annual gathering of Drupal developers, users, themers, consultants, and contributors; its generally held once in the US and once in Europe each year – the next will be DrupalCon Paris in September 2009). I’ll be posting more specific updates on | View post »

Enterprise Collaboration: Alfresco Share Screencast, Part Two

Posted by John Eckman on 19 Feb 2009

In this screencast (see Part One here) Jeff Potts walks through some additional functionality in Alfresco Share, including: How new share “sites” (collaboration spaces or communities) get created How sites can be customized, including adding and removing dashlets from sites As promised, Jeff also shows us some custom components which demonstrate the types of custom | View post »

Enterprise Collaboration: Alfresco Share screencast, Part One

Posted by John Eckman on 12 Feb 2009

One of the joys of working at Optaros is the opportunity to work with colleagues like Jeff Potts, who you may know from his blog (ECM Architect) or as the author of Packt Publishing’s Alfresco Developer Guide. I asked Jeff to add his expertise to the Labs blog by way of a demonstration of Alfresco | View post »

Reviewing the Groundswell

Posted by John Eckman on 22 Jul 2008

One danger of reviewing a book is the reality that the reviews ultimately say more about the reviewer, and the book he or she wishes had been written, than they do about the book which actually was written. It’s in that context that I offer this review of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by | View post »

Open Source Social Applications: Bob Bickel of Ringside Networks

Posted by John Eckman on 02 Jul 2008

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, I sat down for a quick chat with Bob Bickel, the co-founder and CEO of Ringside Networks. We talked about Ringside Networks’ Social Application Server and how they are using open source to drive innovation and application development beyond the core platform. (Don’t forget Bob’s previous middleware-style professional | View post »

Organic Open Source: Jeff Whatcott of Acquia

Posted by John Eckman on 02 Jul 2008

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, Jeff Whatcott and I sat down for a quick interview to discuss Acquia, where he is Chief Communicator, and their plans with respect to the Drupal project and Enterprise 2.0. Jeff talks about the unique position of Acquia in relation to Drupal as an “organic open source” project: | View post »

Open Source and Innovation: John Newton of Alfresco

Posted by John Eckman on 02 Jul 2008

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference this June in Boston, I sat down with John Newton, the CTO and Chairman of Alfresco, for a brief (7:11) discussion about the intersections between ECM and Enterprise 2.0 and the value of community-driven innovation in open source. Newton lays out a very clear picture of how Alfresco has a | View post »

Close

Contact Us